Category: Always On, Always Connected

Introduction See or tell is a “getting to know you” app that aims bring two anxious daters closer together by exposing the personal content on their phones. Motivation Phones are more and more intrusive these days. It’s hard to go an entire meal without someone checking their phone for facebook…

Rationale and concept I’ll be working with Dalit on a final app – and we’ve decided to take a critical look at how mobile technology inserts itself into our lives by making a satirical ‘conversation helper’ app. It’s based on the assumption that as computers get better at decoding what…

Food science is a big target. We rail on GMO’s, throw tantrums about chemicals in our food, yet happily much away on highly processed cookies when we’re feeling blue. Those of us who like to think we’re environmentally conscious (including being aware of what you eat), tend to shy away…

With the main functionality working, it became time to mock up the interface. I’m worried about how in the world I’m going to create this database. I didn’t find anything on the internet like what I need. There are bits of pieces of information scattered throughout several databases through the…

The idea for this app is simple. You take a photo of a list of ingredients, say, on a box of packaged food. You get back that list as buttons, where clicking on each item will pull up information about that ingredient. Because I wasn’t sure about the technical accuracy…

I’m calling this app Habituate for reasons that should be pretty clear. Concept: To spur the building of positive, habitual, behaviors through data tracking, encouragement, and helpful information Audience Anyone interested in self-improvement with regards to their daily habits. Use cases 1. A student wants to spend more time reading and…

I think I have to go with Duolingo on this one. Duolingo is a language learning app that, while has nothing terribly unique or special about it’s UX or UI, it’s clean, simple, well designed, and a pleasure to use. Ultimately their app is in a constant state of displaying…

Introduction I’ve developed some simple apps for iOS using swift in the past, but this is my first experience using JS with phonegap. The no-brainer question comes up – why would I make an app with JS and phonegap when I can just write native Swift? Sure, writing an app…

It’s the first thing I see when I wake up, and often the last thing I see before going to sleep. Enough said, right? It feels like an invaluable part of my life. So much so that the few times it’s broken (or dropped in a pool, or a pond), I’ve…